The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

Human Resources

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UNOPS offers flexible and tailored human resources solutions to UN partners, where speed and efficiency are essential. We provide specialist human resources support in peace and security contexts, during rapidly changing humanitarian emergencies, or for longer term development, based on the needs of our partners.

Our support services include on-time contract and payroll management, and expert recruitment, designed to bring the best people on board, to get the job done right.

  • 26 million
    days of paid work for local people
    THE JOBS WE CREATE

    Our commitment to sustainability is underlined by the jobs we create in the communities where we work.Of the 26 million days of paid work created for local people in 2025, 10 million of those days were undertaken by women.

  • +9,800
    Contracts managed on behalf of partners in 2025
    NUMBER OF PARTNER CONTRACTS MANAGED

    Having the right people in the right place at the right time is key for any UN entity to deliver effectively on its mandate – especially in the context of humanitarian crises and emergency response.

  • $270 million
    in total human resources services in 2025

Our expertise

  • We respond quickly in humanitarian contexts, helping ensure that partners get the right people on board to get the job done right.
  • We provide large-scale recruitment solutions for UN partners, such as the UN Secretariat and the UN Refugee Agency.
  • We manage on-call mediation experts that can be rapidly deployed to UN peacebuilding and conflict prevention efforts.
  • We maintain dedicated pools of technical experts ready to deploy to development challenges.
  • We offer a catalogue of dedicated, efficient and global shared services to our partners. 

Gender parity is necessary when working in challenging locations

Humanitarian aid and development projects often take place in difficult locations. The need for a diverse and gender-balanced workforce to implement these projects can’t be ignored.

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